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Adoptees' Expanded Search Information

When you know Obtained from You Can Birth Date
City or County of Birth
Delivery Doctor Amended Birth Certificate Locate Hospital of Birth -- Check phone directories (from year of birth) for the delivery Doctor. If not listed, check AMA directories (Doctor may have been intern or resident then). Hospital of Birth
Birth date and time
Delivery Doctor
Birth name or B-moms name Amended birth certificate
Final decreee (order) of adoption
Lawyer Obtain birth records from hospital -- Medical records are usually released only to physicians, lawyers, insureHance companies. Have your personal physician request medical records from the hospital. Never accept the "records have been destroyed" - it usually means that they are on micro-film in storage. B-mom's name (maiden)
B-mom's usual state of residence Final decree (order) of adoption
Hospital records
Agency information Marriage license application -- Write to state department of vital statistics; request: "Please send me one copy of the marriage license application for:
Name:
State:
Approximate Date: (1950-1960) etc. It is not necessary to give a reason for the request. -- If demanded, use "genealogical need". B-mom's name (maiden)
B-mom's state of birth
B-mom's date of birth or approximate age Final decree (order) of adoption
Hospital records
Agency information
Marriage license request: "Please send me one copy of the marriage license application for: B-mom's birth certificate -- Write to state department of vital statistics in the state of her birth B-mom's married name
B-mom's usual state of residence
B-mom's date of birth Marriage license application
Hospital records
Birth certificate
Agency information Drivers license record
Voters registration B-mom's married name
B-mom's usual state of residence and county Marriage license application Divorce records -- Usually kept in county hall of records. Grandparents names
Date of death (approximate)
Usual state or residence Marriage license application
Birth certificate
Agency information Death certificate -- Write to state department of vital statistics.
Obituary -- Newspapers usually list surviving relatives and their area of residence.
Cemetery records -- List next of kin and addresses.
Check city and phone directories.